{"id":33379,"date":"2019-10-20T13:32:57","date_gmt":"2019-10-20T19:32:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.skyhinews.com\/?p=60950"},"modified":"2019-10-21T08:51:44","modified_gmt":"2019-10-21T14:51:44","slug":"snow-starts-to-fly-at-winter-park-resort-with-nov-13-opening-on-horizon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/local-news\/snow-starts-to-fly-at-winter-park-resort-with-nov-13-opening-on-horizon\/","title":{"rendered":"Snow starts to fly at Winter Park Resort with Nov. 13 opening on horizon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Citing healthy snowfall this weekend and favorable weather conditions on the horizon, Winter Park Resort announced Sunday it has begun snowmaking efforts for the 2019-20 ski season.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The resort plans to open Nov. 13, weather permitting, of<br \/>\ncourse.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>According to the resort, Winter Park invested $4 million on new pipes, snow guns, and compressors last summer to ensure more efficient snowmaking efforts.<\/p>\n<p>With 20 additional low energy permanently mounted stick guns on the edge&nbsp;of&nbsp;the trail systems and a permanently mounted fan gun, Winter Park Resort promises to have plenty of snow early in the season.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Due to other construction projects on mountain last year, not all the new snow guns were fully utilized in pre-season snowmaking. However, all the new equipment will be operating at full capacity this year, allowing Winter Park to make more snow in less time. <\/p>\n<p>Also, the resort has debuted a new Winter Park Insider\u2019s Package with exclusive access to complimentary tours and experiences available for just three more days. For more, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.WinterParkResort.com\">www.WinterParkResort.com<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<div class=\"p402_hide\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<div class=\"caption-container\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.skyhinews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2019\/10\/2019-10-21_WP_SnowmakingStart_Cfrey-02884-copy-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-60952\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.skyhinews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2019\/10\/2019-10-21_WP_SnowmakingStart_Cfrey-02884-copy-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.skyhinews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2019\/10\/2019-10-21_WP_SnowmakingStart_Cfrey-02884-copy-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.skyhinews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2019\/10\/2019-10-21_WP_SnowmakingStart_Cfrey-02884-copy-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption><strong>Winter Park Resort has started making snow for the 2019-20 ski season. <br \/><em>Photo courtesy of Winter Park Resort<\/em><\/strong><br \/><em>2019-10-21_WP_SnowmakingStart_Cfrey-02884-copy<\/em><\/figcaption><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Citing healthy snowfall this weekend and favorable weather conditions on the horizon, Winter Park Resort announced Sunday it has begun snowmaking efforts for the 2019-20 ski season.\u00a0 The resort plans to open Nov. 13, weather permitting, of course.&nbsp;&nbsp; According to the resort, Winter Park invested $4 million on new pipes, snow guns, and compressors last [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[97],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-33379","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-local-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-12 04:55:27","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KIFT - The LIFT FM","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33379","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33379"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33379\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33422,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33379\/revisions\/33422"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}